[1/2] Reminder: #Google#Chrome oversells “incognito mode” so everyone misunderstands it. It has nothing to do with #tracking or #privacy on the Internet. All it does is stop history, cookies, databases and cache to your own computer's long-term storage. Same for #Microsoft#Edge’s InPrivate and #Firefox’s and #Safari’s private browsing.
Sites and apps can and do still track what you do and where you come from, both in the real world geographically and when you click on links from other sites.
[2/2] Your Internet provider also tracks you, along with anyone else that connects you such as your employer or school when you're on their network or using their #VPN.
(If someone else is managing your computer they can also track everything you do even if It’s not through a network, including seeing your apps and screen and what you type and click.)
Researchers have developed an #AI model trained with data from the Darknet – DarkBERT's source are hackers, cybercriminals, and the politically persecuted.
Holy shit, @protonmail just doubled my base storage to six terabytes for #ProtonMail, #ProtonDrive, etc. I’m only using a little over 16 GB.
Granted I’ve been a paid subscriber since the summer of 2016 (first on their Plus plan, then on Visionary starting the following year). But this is ridiculous.
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
Aujourd'hui, FDN2.org a viré 130€ à #LQDN et 130€ à Nos-Oignons.net #Tor
Ces sommes correspondent aux dons collectés pour ces projets (et par virement bancaire) tout au long de l'année 2022.
Y'a eu de meilleures années, et je tiens à remercier les généreux donateurs qui continuent de nous faire confiance.
L'association FDN2.org dispose d'une cagnotte non flêchée de ~10k€, qui ira à la prochaine idée géniale de défense de la neutralité du net !
From the blurb for Jo Walton's Or What You Will at Macmillan's web site:
"Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton."
Notice the unintended meaning "brought forth from", as if the novel is about how stories come out of Jo Walton's head?
I know this will lead to a heated debate, but I have to agree with @Gargron.
Having to pick an instance/server is cited as the biggest hurdle to joining Mastodon, and dismissing people who feel this way is just plain rude.
Yes, the registration flow for Mastodon should be user-friendly. And yes, we need to live up to the promises of decentralized social media. We just need to get creative about our approach.
@stefan@Gargron I've worked on #decentralized systems for many years now, including #XMPP clients, #Matrix, #Tor, and @fdroidorg and I think the new #Mastodon client onboarding experience is a good idea. But it also means there is a new slippery slope towards centralization, and it needs to be heeded and monitored to make sure it doesn't do more harm than good. The good news is that there are multiple, good clients, so that helps quite a bit.
Greetings. I'll add one more brief thought to my endless treatises on where I think the Internet is going. Essentially, I believe we're already past the inflection point of "social media" as we've known it, and we'll be riding down the curve from this point onward.
The confluence of state and federally-mandated content requirements, moderation requirements, ID requirements, and a range of other restrictions that will come eventually (perhaps sooner rather than later), will mean the days of anonymous social media partying will be drawing to a close.
Social media will no doubt continue to exist in some form -- and some distributed/federated ecosystems will attempt (ultimately unsuccessfully) to hold off these changes -- but on a bipartisan basis politicians are closing in on agreements for how to tightly regulate the Internet and its users. It's just a matter of time.
To pretend that this isn't happening is a fallacy, and my recommendation is that we try to figure out the best ways to move forward in an environment that will be changed enormously, trying to preserve via compromise the best that we can, and to improve on the status quo wherever possible. -L
"In his excellent book on #surveillance, Bruce Schneier has pointed out we would never agree to carry tracking devices and report all our most intimate conversations if the government made us do it.
But under such a scheme, we would enjoy more legal protections than we have now. By letting ourselves be tracked voluntarily, we forfeit all protection against how that information is used.
Those who control the data gain enormous power over those who don't."
@strypey I'll read the book, which I don't think I've read yet.
In my opinion by all the evidence it seems impossible to regulate away surveillance capitalism culture, though I understand Schneier is an expert on pro-cybersecurity public policy changes (that fail to gain traction, amirite).
I think absolutely all people need to begin practicing long-standing, tried-and-true privacy measures. #GPG encryption of personal emails all the time. Take data out of corporate hands with #i2p#tor etc.
Damn, spent almost 2 hours trying to figure out why yt-dlp was giving me DNS errors when used together with torsocks, it always worked fine, but at the end, the culprit was the external downloader aria2c, when I removed it from the parameters, everything worked smooth 😪
A darknet market vendor was let go after a raid in his house while he was logged into Tor and into a marketplace, cause the police ejected the USB that was running the OS and the whole drive was wiped off :)) #tor#Darknet
Sicheres Surfen: Die Digitale Gesellschaft Schweiz #digiges sucht Spenden für den Betrieb von trackingfreien DNS-Servern und einen #Tor-Server mit Kosten von Jährlich insgesamt CHF 3'500.-
Hier sind die Infos dazu, auch für Laien verständlich geschrieben: https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/sicheres-surfen-fuer-alle